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On Tuesday, defence officials said militants attacked an Afghan government army base in Kandahar , killing at least 10 soldiers and wounding nine. The Taliban said it had carried out the attack, AFP news agency reports. The US and other North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies are considering sending thousands more troops to back up the Afghan military as it battles the insurgency.

That was round 1. During the three months that Donald Trump has been president, the NY businessman has shaken his fair share of hands - and has refused to shake few others . "Macron plays the Trump handshake game well". When Macron does get around to greeting Trump, Trump goes for the grab-and-pull. As President Trump met French President Emmanuel Macron for the first time, welcoming him to lunch Thursday at the residence here of the US ambassador to Belgium, the two men shook ...

The crescent moon was not sighted on Thursday and so fasting will start Saturday. In a series of tweets, Khalid Al-Zaaq, a Saudi astronomer and member of the Arab Union for Astronomy and Space Sciences, also added that this year, Ramadan will begin and end on a Saturday, making it a 29-day month.

On Friday, the second day of the meeting, the Council chose to tax services under four slabs of 5 per cent, 12 per cent, 18 per cent and 28 per cent. He further mentioned that GST rates are likely to be nearly neutral for the commercial vehicle and two-wheeler and would marginally increase for Three Wheelers as it didn't attract additional NCCD earlier.

Just days after President Donald Trump blasted the Islamic Republic for its illicit ballistic missile program and support of terrorism in the Middle East, Rouhani confirmed that Iran would not cease its missile activity, despite repeated calls by US officials.

U.S. President Donald Trump (L) meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem , on May 22, 2017. Israel and the Palestinians have not held direct talks for more than three years and Trump acknowledged it was "one of the toughest deals of all".

The Israeli Ambassador to the United States couldn't contain himself after President Donald Trump implied Israel is not located in the Middle East , putting his head in his hands in disbelief at the statement . The measures included extending the operating hours of the Allenby Bridge border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan , expanding a West Bank industrial zone and allowing Palestinian construction in areas of the West Bank under full Israeli control.

The ground-based system has not had the best record, with only nine of 17 attempts successful since 1999. Though it succeeded in the last test in 2014, it failed during the three prior attempts. Some outside the administration have been less sanguine about China's willingness to work with the USA on North Korea , while Beijing officials say their influence with Pyongyang has been exaggerated.

He also heads an alliance that includes at least 10 smaller militant groups, including the Maute, which have a heavy presence in Marawi and were instrumental in fighting off government forces in this week's battles. An initial rampage by gunmen, who have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, through the mainly Muslim city of Marawi on Tuesday prompted President Rodrigo Duterte to impose martial law across the southern third of the Philippines .

ILIGAN, Philippines (AP) - Foreign fighters are among the militants linked to the Islamic State group who are battling government troops in the southern Philippines, an official said Friday. Some resident remain in relatively safe neighbours but others are trapped close to the fighters from the Maute group and other militants from the area.

The Trump administration in February sanctioned more than two dozen people and companies in retaliation for a ballistic missile test, warning it had put the Islamic Republic "on notice". Rouhani, who fronted Tehran's deal with six major powers in 2015 to curb Iran's nuclear programme in return for the lifting of sanctions, said the US administration lacked knowledge about the Middle East.

Jared Kushner , President Donald Trump's son-in-law and one of the senior advisers in the Trump administration, was seeking a private communications channel with the Kremlin, according to a new report in The Washington Post . The article comes one day after the Post reported that Kushner is under investigation as part of the FBI's probe into whether Trump's campaign team actively colluded with Russian officials to try to sway the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte , right, addresses troops during his visit to the 2nd Mechanized Brigade Friday, May 26, 2017 on the outskirts of Iligan city in southern Philippines. He said Hapilon suffered a stroke after a government airstrike wounded him in January. "We were sure they would get to us", he said. In a sign that the long-standing problem of militancy in the south could be expanding, Solicitor General Jose Calida said foreigners were fighting alongside the gunmen in ...

German publication Der Spiegel reported that Trump "voiced significant displeasure" about Germany's trade surplus during a meeting with European Union leaders in Brussels , Belgium. Then-Prime Minister Matteo Renzi of Italy said past year that it wasn't good for the eurozone economy. Germany's current account surplus-the amount its exports outpace its imports-recently hit 270 billion euros, close to 8.9 percent of its gross domestic product.

Katju also said that it appears Pakistan's minimal objection towards ICJ's jurisdiction is because India has given it a chance to open up several other issues in front of the global court. The Hague-based court had yesterday stayed the execution of Jadhav, 46, considered to be a spy by Pakistan. Ausaf said that the impression given off is as if we [Pakistan] agreed to compulsory jurisdiction of the ICJ in March 2017 with a sinister motive.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has described relations with the United States as "a curvy road". In a jibe at the billion-dollar deals signed between Trump and the Saudi government, Rouhani said: "You can't solve terrorism just by giving your people's money to a superpower".

Dozens of Palestinians have been injured during protests in various parts of the West Bank, occupied since 1967 by the Israeli army , and near the security barrier that seals off the Gaza Strip. Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk said in a statement . In the meantime, Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked said, on Monday, that "there is no chance for a Palestinian state".

Gerard Araud, serving as France's ambassador to the United Nations in 2014. Trump has described himself as "a germ freak" and called handshakes "barbaric". There was even more arm wrestling upon Macron's arrival at the festivities at the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation headquarters. Melania Trump was also on the steps of the embassy to receive the new French president, whose wife, Brigitte, did not attend the working lunch on the sidelines of a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation summit.

It was a "theatrical gathering with no practical or political value", he said of Trump's stop in Saudi Arabia over the weekend, according to CNN . Visiting Iran's arch-foe Saudi Arabia on Sunday, Trump singled out Iran as a key source of funding and support for militant groups in the Middle East, sending a tough message to Tehran the day after Rouhani won a second presidential term.

Three days later Marawi , the centre of Islam in the mainly Catholic nation was swarmed by tanks, attack helicopters and thousands of troops fighting Islamic State-linked fighters holed up in homes and buildings. We have everything. Wala kayong problema. As authorities tried to gain more control over the city, disturbing details have emerged. Authorities were working to determine the condition of a Catholic priest and worshippers who were taken hostage by gunmen earlier this week.

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Mr Corbyn was "monstrous" for trying to justify the actons of terrorists. Mr. Corbyn also took the opportunity to voice his long running opposing to the so-called war on terror. Theresa May and the Conservatives lead the Labour Party by just five points in the first poll conducted since Monday's deadly terror attack in Manchester .

The State government, while invoking powers conferred on it under Indian Telegraph Act and Information Technology Act, had on April 26 banned 22 social networking sites, in an attempt to curb the street protests in the Valley. The ban came in the wake of reports that these social networking sites were being "misused by anti-national and anti-social elements to create law and order disturbances" in Kashmir .

Bill Cosby , center, with one of his attorneys Angela Agrusa, right, at the Allegheny County Courthouse, Wednesday, May 24, 2017 , in Pittsburgh . Cosby claims his encounter with Constand was consensual and says he hopes to restore his reputation and career. They were lumped together because the judge was calling people based on their juror number and the seating position they took in the original jury pool room, and so numerous African Americans had clustered at the back.

Chaffetz made the announcement, according to Reuters, in a Thursday letter which specified that he sought documents that Special Counsel Robert Mueller wouldn't be investigating. His response promises the House probe will complement Mueller's investigation and not interfere with it. Chaffetz issued a new June 8th deadline for the materials he's requesting .

And in any case, Markovic said, "it is natural that the president of the United States is in the front row". During a visit to Saudi Arabia this week, he called Islam one of the world's great religions after declaring during the campaign that "Islam hates us".

A 29-pitch second and 31-pitch fourth bumped his pitch count up and Nats' skipper Dusty Baker went to the bullpen in the home-half of the sixth inning. Ariel Miranda (4-2) allowed two runs, three hits and three walks in five innings. The San Diego staff also includes reliever Craig Stammen, who came up through the Washington system after he was drafted out of the University of Dayton in 2005.

This marked the first time the Trump campaign organization has been drawn into the bipartisan committee's investigation into Russian interference in the presidential election, it said. President Trump has described the situation as "the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history". The FBI investigation is now being overseen by Robert Mueller, a respected former FBI director who was given broad powers to pursue the case as a special counsel after Trump abruptly fired ...

Witnesses said masked men stopped the vehicles on a road leading to the monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor in Minya province and opened fire. "It is shocking that this attack was directed against people who were on a pilgrimage of peace, and that this attack comes on the heels of ongoing violence and persecution", Tveit said.

U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania, greet Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife Akie Abe, as they arrive for a concert in the Ancient Theatre of Taormina ( 3rd century BC) in the Sicilian citadel o. Tusk said that "I totally agreed with him when he said the global community, the G7, the United States , Europe - should be tough, even brutal, with terrorism and ISIS" an acronym for the extremist group fighting in Syria and Iraq .

Russian Federation at times feeds false information into communication streams it suspects are monitored as a way of sowing misinformation and confusion among USA analysts. Kushner's interactions with Russians - including Kislyak and an executive for a Russian bank under USA sanctions - were not acknowledged by the White House until they were exposed in media reports.

Trump isn't the only one wanting more commitment, though. Fellow NATO leaders occasionally exchanged awkward looks with each other during the president's lecture, which occurred at an event commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall and the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The White House late Tuesday released a readout of Trump's meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem from earlier that day. He stressed, however, that the real problem was in occupation and settlements. The President said that only when remembering the families "torn apart from everyone they loved, who suffered that awful darkness and evil, who endured the unbearable horror of the Holocaust, only then can we prevent this agony from ever repeating".

Macron and Trump posed for photos at the residence of the USA ambassador in Brussels , where they spent a few tense moments tightly gripping each other's fingers in a forceful handshake. The French leader held the shake for a few seconds more. The body-language battles began when French President Macron refused to be shaken when he found himself in a handshake battle with Trump Thursday.

He said the rally in recent days left few buyers to support futures once prices started to fall. "With this kind of momentum and nearly two weeks to go until the vote, not only is this not going to be the breeze that May anticipated when she called the snap election last month, it could yet turn into a humiliating defeat for the Conservative leader and her party", said Craig Erlam , senior market analyst at OANDA .

Nobody can talk."Pogba also played in the League Cup final victory over Southampton at Wembley Stadium but missed the Community Shield win over last season's Premier League champions Leicester City having only just joined the Old Trafford club from Juve".

Some had speculated that Trump would announce the embassy relocation, which was one of his campaign promises, during his recent trip to Israel . "I also firmly believe that if Israel and the Palestinians can make peace, it will begin a process of peace all throughout the Middle East, and that would be an awesome accomplishment", the US President said on the last day of his Middle East visit.

Relatives of both men, whose identities have not been released, were taken in for questioning. The blasts came after 22 people were killed in a blast at the Manchester Arena in the United Kingdom on Monday night after a concert by USA singer Ariana Grande and at least 21 people were killed when IS-linked militants swept through the Philippine city of Marawi .

Coalition officials said Russian forces had apparently unsuccessfully tried to dissuade the pro-regime movement south. As long as the USA keeps backing anti-regime insurgents in Syria and is willing to attack pro-regime forces as part of that support, there will be a danger that an incident like this could lead to a larger conflict with the Syrian government and its patrons.

Guwahati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday vowed to continue with the tirade against "benami" property under any circumstances and at any cost so that the resources recovered could be utilized for the benefit of the poor. PANAJI: Calling the last three years of the BJP rule full of rhetoric and hyperbole, the Congress party issued a list of alleged corruption cases against PM Modi's government "Modi government's three years have been a story of broken promises and shattered dreams".

Brazil's political crisis deepened sharply on Thursday with corruption allegations that threatened to topple the presi. Rousseff was impeached last August over different corruption allegations and claims she mismanaged Brazil's budget, while Lula is now on trial for being the mastermind of "Operation Carwash".

Most of the victims wer... After ISIS "interacted" with the civilians, Isler continued, they rigged the back of the house with explosives and positioned two snipers to draw fire on the house. Local MP Faris al-Sanjari had claimed the coalition air strike had targeted a truck bomb causing a huge explosion. The strike in question occurred the morning of March 17, when Operation Inherent Resolve coalition aircraft struck the building after the two snipers engaged Iraqi ...

Through renegotiations, "the United States seeks to support higher-paying jobs in the United States and to grow the USA economy by improving U.S. opportunities to trade with Canada and Mexico", Lighthizer said in the letter sent to Congressional leadership.

But the Preakness came to tell another story, and that involved Seth Klarman , who owns the colt with William Lawrence . We had a plan and we were sticking to the plan and it worked out great. "We been working for a long time for this moment". Castellano, who will be inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame this summer, said the victory held great meaning for his family.

Trump's caution showed. He did not weigh in on Israeli settlements, the status of Jerusalem or even whether the USA would continue to insist on a two-state solution giving the Palestinians sovereign territory. But what will his position be on Israeli settlement building? A firm demand would put Netanyahu under pressure from his right-wing base. The first daughter spoke of the need for transformation at Sunday's women's economic empowerment roundtable, which was attended by 15 women, ...

For their part, Democrats have refused to engage in talks with Republicans unless the GOP drops its repeal mantra and agrees to work toward adjustments in Obama's statute. Critics of the House bill say it reduces funding for Medicaid, and makes services like substance abuse treatment optional for states. The Massachusetts Democrat said today that Senate Republicans are trying to get the bill to the floor of the Senate as quickly as possible.

The only way that I know to convince the club to stay for a long time is to work. Wenger is in the middle of picking up the pieces of a broken a season; yet another year that promised so much yet fell and cracked after a few bumps in the road.

That acceptance was seen as an effort by the pope to relax some rules of the Vatican. " "More determined than ever to pursue PEACE." ". Stephanie Grisham, a spokeswoman for the first lady, said Mrs Trump's decision to wear a black lace veil known as a mantilla followed Vatican protocol that women who have an audience with the pope must wear long sleeves, formal black clothing and a veil to cover their head.

US President Trump has been confronted by fellow G-7 leaders on climate change and the possibility of withdrawing from the 2015 Paris Agreement . During a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation meeting in Brussels this week, French President Emmanuel Macron urged Trump to stay in the agreement.

While in Brussels , Trump will meet with the leaders of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, which he previously threatened to abandon. TRUMP to Macron at a lunch meeting in Brussels on Thursday, according to a French official: " You were my guy " in the French campaign.

Conte came under heavy pressure when Chelsea lost 3-0 to Arsenal back in September but he changed his team's formation and fortunes as they stormed to the Premier League title. Despite Conte's respect for Wenger, there will be no let-up from the Italian, who wants his side to complete a remarkable season. Shkodran Mustafi has been a doubt all week for tomorrow's FA Cup final, and the German's chances of making the game look very slim and he doesn't appear to have taken part in ...